Battle of Ticonderoga (1775)

:For other battles at Fort Ticonderoga, see Battle of Ticonderoga.

Aftermath

Seth Warner marched a detachment up the lakeshore and captured nearby Crown Point, garrisoned by only nine men. On May 12, Allen sent the prisoners to Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull noting that "I make you a present of a Major, a Captain, and two Lieutentants of the regular Establishment of George the Third."

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Crown Point - May 12 - Jonathan Trumbull

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Arnold took a small schooner and several bateaux from Skenesboro north with 50 volunteers. On May 18 they seized another garrison at Fort St. Johns along with the Enterprise, a seventy ton sloop. Aware that several companies were stationed a twelve miles down river at Chambly, they loaded the more valuable captured supplies and cannon, burned the boats they couldn't take and returned to Crown Point.

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May 18 - Fort St. Johns - Chambly

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Ethan Allen and his men returned home. Benedict Arnold remained with some Connecticut replacements in command at Ticonderoga. At first the Continental Congress wanted the men and forts returned to the British, but on May 31 they bowed to pressure from Massachusetts and Connecticut and agreed to keep them. Connecticut sent a regiment under Colonel Benjamin Hinman to hold Ticonderoga. When Arnold learned that he was second to Hinman, he resigned his Connecticut commission and went home.

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Continental Congress - May 31 - Massachusetts - Benjamin Hinman

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In the winter of 1775-1776, Henry Knox moved the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston, to support the Siege of Boston. The captured ships were used, along with others, in 1776 by then General Arnold to thwart Britain's attempt at recapture in the Battle of Valcour Island. Ticonderoga was retaken by the British Saratoga Campaign in 1777, but abandoned after their surrender at the Battle of Saratoga.

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1776 - Henry Knox - Boston - Siege of Boston - Battle of Valcour Island - Saratoga Campaign - 1777 - Battle of Saratoga

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